Not only did he not get the coveted +6 to get the upper hand in case of a draw, but Olympiacos also comes away with a defeat to Monaco (64-40), although he led 8-20 in the 1st period. Kostas Sloukas missed the decisive shot and one at the end, but it was his poor performance overall that robbed him of his 3rd win in a row – after victories over Panathinaikos and Armani – and a stint in the penthouse of the scoreboard.

The leading player of Olympiacos this year, Sasha Vezenkov, limited himself to 4 points with 0/4 three-pointers (he had 8 rebounds). Alec Peters was the best that the Red-Whites could show (12 points, with 3/4 three-pointers). Slukas had 10 points on 1/4 3s and 4 assists while Walkup had 0/4 3s and Kanan had 1/5. Fal, with 9 points and 7 rebounds, made an impact mainly in the first half.

Olympiacos had a chance to walk away with a win at the end, but Sluka’s choice was poor to make a long-range shot 61-59 to Monaco with 22 seconds left.

Mike James (19 points on 4/9 3-pointers and… 7 fouls) slowly… entered the game, he did it with three three-pointers in a row in the 2nd period, was silent in the 3rd and spoke again only at the end . Alfa Diallo damaged Piraeus with 16 points.

Olympiacos fell to 11-7 and Monaco remained in first place at 12-6.

On Thursday (1.12, 21:30) Olympiacos will play against Virtus Bologna in the 19th round, and Monaco will play in Belgrade with Red Star (1.12, 20:00).